[GreenKeys] Speaking about ITTY...

Thu Aug 22 00:17:12 EDT 2019

I think there is room for various methods and technologies in the world of teletypery-- they don't necessarily need to be competing or vying to replace each other-- rather they are all just offering different dynamics and capabilities.

For example:

Getting ITTY running on my Raspberry Pi setup has been a goal of mine for quite some time.

I also wish to join iTelex-- it's just a matter of time before I actually do it. I agree with Nick-- $200 to get up and running really isn't bad considering how polished and supported the entire system is.

I have leveraged both Eric Volpe's and John Nagle's USB/TTY interface boards combined with some custom scripts I've written for many types of communications: email, SMS, RSS, ASCII (ITA2) art, and weather so far (those who made orders for these, watch for an update soon). I also have partially built some additional scripts for the boards that allow text-based communication over TCP-- the end goal of this being to allow other TCP-equipped computers or computer-interfaced teletypes to communicate in realtime over modern networks (including the internet), sort of like a decentralized iTelex, but not at all meant to be a replacement/competitor for iTelex. These'll be available publicly eventually.

Furthermore I have experimented with running some ITTY-like RTTY broadcasts of my own-- I hope to start doing regular live broadcasts from a heavy metal machine via a YouTube Channel and probably via an IceCast server. I have been leveraging the commandline mode of fldigi for this, but I see Hugh Pyle has recommended the commandline tool minimodem on another thread, which tool may serve my purposes even better. So thanks for the recommendation!

While true RTTY I gather does not have the same force in numbers it used to have, it's still available to those with the proper equipment and licensing (I hope to count myself amongst them one day as well).

My point in saying all this is that at least in my view I prefer to have various communications methods-- each has a somewhat different purpose, pros, and cons. I hope ITTY continues chugging along for many years, and I hope to leverage all of these channels and others if and when they become available.

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Jordan Spencer Cunningham
teletype.net

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019, at 6:09 PM, Nick wrote:
> Well, I love ITTY and definitely appreciate all the hard and time consuming daily work from everybody who is involved in this interesting system. I just can't imagine not having ITTY, the European channel and Autostart. 
> 
> But if you guy's are looking for other opportunities/possibilities to use the heavy metal teletype machines, I would strongly recommend to look a bit deeper into the iTelex system. I know what you are thinking right now about the expenses to get the iTelex system running at your house, but it is actually not that bad ....... we are spending so many $'s on crapppppp - so what?
> 
> Another way to use the heavy metal is SMS (text messaging) - that's something I like to tackle. I know you can't send pics and smiley faces but I'm pretty sure that texting via an old teletype machine could be very interesting and enjoyable. Not 100% sure at the moment how many $'s you have to spend here but the answer will probably come very shortly from some other members with more experience.
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> Of course I am open to other ideas, new technologies and nifty fantasies to use the old heavy metal - BUT ONE THING IS FOR SURE, I DON'T WANT TO LOOSE ITTY !!!!!
> 
> Nick - N0NCQ 
> iTelex 212503
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net>
> Date: 8/21/19 6:39 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Speaking about ITTY...
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> Just curious about something. We know many people like and use ITTY. But it seems lately a fair (and growing) number of people don’t want ITTY. They want a different solution. 
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> May I ask what people are seeking? Is it the desire to experiment (always fun and encouraged!), or the need for a private closed system with your own content, or the desire to avoid the RTTY/audio aspects of ITTY, or something else? 
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> A number of us work hard to keep ITTY going as a reliable AFSK/RTTY type of capability. We need to keep tabs on what our listeners want and we need to be watchful for that day, should it come (egad!), when ITTY is no longer wanted or useful. 
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> Paul
>  W2TTY
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>  ITTY: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8000/ITTY <http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY>
>  AUTOSTART: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8030/AUTOSTART <http://internet-tty.net:8030/AUTOSTART>
>  EUROPE: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8040/EUROPE <http://internet-tty.net:8040/EUROPE>
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